1. Final album cover design Tutorial
Ravin Schmidl 10E

2. Objectives
• To be able to suit the ‘House’ genre of music
• It should be colorful and catch the eye of the
audience
• There should be a picture of myself in the
album cover
• The font for the title should be made up. I
made the font using a different tutorial.

3. Step 1
• I added both my backgrounds to my new
piece (120mm x 110mm), like the left picture.
I then changed the opacity of the skyline
picture to 61%

4. Step 2:
• For this, I added a filter onto the graffiti wall.
• I went to filter/brush strokes/Dark strokes
• I set the settings to (from the top) 5, 0 & 5

5. Step 3:
• This is when I added some random things onto the
wall.
• I had to change the perspective for some of the icons
as well as rotate them and scale them. You can find
this under Edit/Transform
• I used the magic wand tool and free select tool to
select the black parts.

6. This is what it looked like in the end:

7. Step 4:
• Now I added the picture of myself in.
• I used photobooth for this and then put the picture in PS.
• I then changed the image to complete blackness. I did this
my going to Image/Adjustments/Brightness and Contrast
• The next couple of slides show you how I did it.

8. • Here I selected myself with a free select tool

9. • I then cut the background out.

10. • I went to Image/Adjustments/Brightness and
contrasts and set the brightness to -150 and
contrast to 100 (the maximum settings)

11. Step 6:
• I then changes the opacity of myself to 69%
and I changed the blend mode to Hard mix.

12. Step 7:
• Now I added a filter to my silhouette.
• I went to Filters/Texture/Stained glass.

13. Step 8: Font
• For this, I used a font which I downloaded
called discodeck. I had to make a layer for
each letter.
• I then spaced them closely together, so that
they are overlapping each other.

14. Making the font
• After typing each letter on each layer, I had to
make a gradient. It should look roughly like
that.

15. • I then went on to the layer on each of the
letter and clicked on the small fx at the
bottom of the layers tab. I then clicked
gradient overlay.
• I then change the
gradient to the one I
made. Changes the style
to angle.

16. • I can then change the way the angle faces to
suit the letters, with the small disc at the
bottom. For example, the letter ‘C’ angle is 0.

17. Step 9: Text
• Last but not least, I resized the text
“DJRavinszkha” to fit inside my head and used
font Impact

18. Final product